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22 Doctor of Podiatric Medicine (DPM) students are seeing patients at the beginning of their second year. “Our clinical experiences are 100 percent hands-on and include secondyear rotations at the busy Alameda County Medical Center, which operates Highland Hospital, the San Francisco homeless shelters, and the SMU simulation center,” explains Eric Stamps, DPM, Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs and Assistant Professor. “Highland Hospital is a county teaching hospital with a solid educational culture. It has a high volume of patients, often with undertreated disease. Our students excel in this busy environment.” Third year podiatric clinical experiences Dr. Eric Stamps, California School extend throughout of Podiatric Medicine the year and include general surgery, internal medicine, biomechanics and three months of podiatric medicine and surgery. The third year also includes a month in a private practitioner’s office. “The idea is to teach the students something about private practice, to allow students to form relationships with potential future business partners and to spread the word about our educational program,” said Dr. Stamps. “Many of our private office practitioners have been involved with this program for decades.”
Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy students also have unique clinical environments. Portions of their clinical work take place in University sponsored clinics. These clinics focus on rehabilitation issues and serve individuals who have a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits their skills of daily living, and serve those who have exhausted their health insurance. Michael De Rosa, PhD, MPH, PA-C, Chair of the Master Physician Assistant program, credits early clinical placement as one of the top reasons why his program has a 98 percent first time pass rate on the Physician Assistant National Certification Examination for all graduates. (Average national first time pass rate over same period is 91 percent.) Physician Assistant students Amanda Dick and Abbey Goetz The excellence of any type of practitioner is largely dependent on the quality and range of clinical care offered to students during their educational program. “These responsibilities are managed by dedicated faculty whose sole role is scheduling and managing clinical sites and their attendant contracts,” adds Dr. Foster. “It is well accepted that in the academic community, these clinical coordinators have some of the toughest jobs handling a myriad of sites, contracts, student issues, scheduling, and of course, counseling and evaluating students through this most critical phase of their education.” 23
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